Margaret Graybill, seated left, celebrates her birthday with the Thursday Pinochle Card Club with a lunch at Ruth's Restaurant. Behind her are director Pam Estes and other club members.

Written by

Anna Foultz
Delmarva Media Group Correspondent

The 88th annual Chincoteague Pony Swim is July 24-25, and I hope many of you are able to witness this beautiful and exciting wild pony swim across the Assateague Channel to Chincoteague Island. The ponies are then auctioned and sold, and some are returned to Assateague Island for another year.

Everybody loves these wild ponies, and many visitors are attracted to our beautiful beaches to see them and be a witness to this small part of their history, which dates back to the 1600s.

The ponies are believed to be refugees from a sunken Spanish Galleon cargo ship, and boaters often see these beautiful ...